Five seeds fail to sprout on People’s Sunday

In a match which lasted six minutes short of four hours, Henman scraped through 6-7, 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 14-12.

Henman had no business to win, rather Haarhuis had no business to lose. After he had broken Henman in the seventh game of the final set, Haahruis was playing so solid, like a typical doubles player — serving wide and volleying away from Henman that the British hopes were all set to be dashed, like every year. But this time, the crowd, most partisan and most irresponsible, contributed that little bit towards Haarhuis’ defeat.

Meanwhile, 15th seeded Wayne Ferreira became the only seed to fall when he lost to France’s Cedric Pioline 4-6, 3-6, 3-6 in the third round.

Thare was a major shake-out of the seeds in the women’s on People’s Sunday. There were four seeds, ranging from sixth seeded South African Amanda Coetzer to the 14th seeded Brenda Schultz-McCarthy who went out without a fight, even as the second seed Monica Seles, who was a set down when play was suspended yesterday, returned to quell the challenge of Kristina Brandi of the United States in three sets, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

the biggest surprise of the day was the elimination of Coetzer, who at seed No. 6, had good chances to proceed further in the tournament. Coetzer won just three games in her defeat against Canada’s Patricia Hy-Boulais.

The big-serving Lindsay Davenport, seeded one place above Coetzer, lost to an unheralded Czech from Prague, Denisa Chladkova also in straight sets, 7-5, 6-2. The biggest server on the women’s tour, Brenda-Schultz McCarthy also lost. Sabine Applemans, the Belgian who has been hovering around the periphery of big time, was a surprise winner over Schultz-McCarthy, the 14th seed, in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3.

The 1994 champion, Spaniard Conchita Martinez, seeded 10th, went out against veteran Helena Sukova also in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2. Her departure did not raise many eyebrows for she was never in the race for the title, anyway.

HOW THE SEEDS FARED

MEN’S SINGLES (3rd round): 4-Richard Krajicek (Netherlands) bt David Rikl (Czech Republic) 6-4 6-3 7-5, 14-Tim Henman (Britain) bt Paul Haarhuis (Netherlands) 6-7 (7-9) 6-3 6-2 4-6 14-12, Cedric Pioline (France) bt 15-Wayne Ferreira (South Africa) 6-4 6-3 6-3.

2nd round: 1-Pete Sampras (US) bt Hendrik Dreekmann (Germany) 7-6 (7-2) 7-5 7-5, 3-Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Russia) bt Javier Sanchez (Spain) 6-2 4-6 6-3 6-4, 9-Marcelo Rios (Chile) bt Dennis van Scheppingen (Netherlands) 6-2 6-3 6-7 (1-7) 7-6 (9-7), 12-Patrick Rafter (Australia) bt Jens Knippschild (Germany) 6-3 4-6 6-3 6-0, 13-Andrei Medvedev (Ukraine) bt Sargis Sargsian (Armenia) 6-1 6-4 7-5, 16-Petr Korda (Czech Republic) bt Marc Rosset (Switzerland) 6-3 6-0 7-6 (10-8).

WOMEN’S SINGLES (3rd round): 1-Martina Hingis (Switzerland) bt Nicole Arendt (US) 6-1 6-3, Helena Sukova (Czech Republic) bt 10-Conchita Martinez (Spain) 6-4 6-2, 12-Irina Spirlea (Romania) bt Gigi Fernandez (US) 6-3 6-1, Sabine Appelmans (Belgium) bt 14-Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (Netherlands) 6-2 6-3. Second round

2-Monica Seles (US) bt Kristina Brandi (US) 5-7 6-3 6-3, 3-Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) bt Elena Likhovtseva (Russia) 6-1 4-6 6-4, Denisa Chladkova (Czech Republic) bt 5-Lindsay Davenport (US) 7-5 6-2, Patricia Hy-Boulais (Canada) bt 6-Amanda Coetzer (SA) 6-2 6-1, 9-Mary Pierce (France) bt Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) 6-0 2-6 6-3, 11-Mary Joe Fernandez (US) bt Aleksandra Olsza (Poland) 6-4 6-0, Naoko Kijimuta (Japan) bt 16-Barbara Paulas (Austria) 5-7 6-3 6-3.

MEN’S SINGLES (2ND ROUND): John van Lottum (Netherlands) bt Renzo Furlan (Italy) 6-3 6-3 6-3, Todd Woodbridge (Australia) bt Marcos Ondruska (SA) 7-5 6-1 7-6 (7-3), Mark Petchey (GBR) bt Tommy Haas (Germany) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 6-2, Jason Stoltenberg (Australia) bt Nicklas Kulti (Sweden) 6-2 3-6 6-2 6-3, Alex O’Brien (US) bt Neville Godwin (SA) 6-3 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 7-6 (7-5), Nicolas Kiefer (Germany) bt Patrick Baur (Germany) 7-5 7-6 (7-2) 6-1, Byron Black (Zimbabwe) bt Danny Sapsford (Britain) 6-2 7-5 6-2, Mark Woodforde (Australia) bt Chris Wilkinson (Britain) 5-7 5-7 6-2 6-4 6-1, Michael Stich (Germany) bt Sandon Stolle (Australia) 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 7-6 (7-4), Richey Reneberg (US) bt Guillaume Raoux (France) 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (9-7) 6-3, Greg Rusedski (Britain) bt Andrew Richardson (Britain) 6-3 6-4 6-4, Brett Steven (New Zealand) bt Magnus Norman (Sweden) 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-3 6-1.

WOMEN’S SINGLES (2nd round): Florencia Labat (Argentina) bt Els Callens (Belgium) 6-2 6-3, Sandrine Testud (France) bt Corina Morariu (US) 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-1, Magdalena Grzybowska (Poland) bt Barbara Schett (Austria) 4-6 6-3 6-2, Nathalie Tauziat (France) bt Kerry-Anne Guse (Australia) 6-0 6-3, Yayuk Basuki (Indonesia) Bt Ines Gorrochategui (Argentina) 6-2 6-0, Magui Serna (Spain) bt Sarah Pitkowski (France) 6-2 6-0, Tamarine Tanasugarn (Thailand) bt Naoko Sawamatsu (Japan) 6-2 6-2, Judith Wiesner (Austria) bt Lorna Woodroffe (GBR) 6-2 6-3, Radka Zrubakova (Slovakia) bt Nicole Pratt (Australia) 6-4 7-5.